Censorship Quote by John Mortimer

Censorship is the thing that stops you doing what you want to do, and what writers want to talk about is what they do,…

— Salman Rushdie

As a writer, I think the greatest danger would be self-censorship.

— Katie Kitamura

There is a lot of censorship about writing that's exerted from all directions, from families or governments and society, even the fear of being…

— Alice Mattison

Once a paper admits any principle of censorship for survival, the we-don't-want-to-do-it-but-we-don't-want-to-lose-the-printer kind of censorship, it jeopardizes the integrity of its editorial principle. It's…

— Germaine Greer

Most writers censor themselves in awful ways. I do, too.

— Amitava Kumar

Writers are always a great nuisance to publishers. If they could do without them, they would.

— Fay Weldon

“Self-censorship can be very damaging to a story. When our chief goal is not to offend someone, we are not likely to write a…

— Katherine Paterson

Censorship is a strange situation. There was times when people would burn books because they didn't like what people were doing.

— Michael Berryman

“Perhaps nothing is so wounding to a writer than being accused of having written something that hurts a child. Censorship is an attitude of…

— Julius Lester

The worst kind of censorship is the kind that takes place in your own mind before you sit down to a typewriter.

— Paddy Chayefsky

“That's all we writers have, anyway; our minds and imaginations. To allow censors even the tiniest space in there with us can only lead…

— Norma Fox Mazer

The trouble with censorship is that once it starts it is hard to stop. Just about every book contains something that someone objects to.

— Studs Terkel